Return of Reckoning

I just started tinkering with developing my own addon and saw that LibGroup seems to handle a lot of the group/warband member information that I'm looking for. I've included LibGroup as a dependency in my addon and have been trying to reference it by simply doing LibGroup.GroupMembers.ByName but that table is always empty. Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

Also, any tips on addon development? Is there a better way than to make a bunch of EA_ChatWindow.Print() statements? make a change and /reloadui?


thanks!